As regular readers (all three of you 🙂 will know, we have a weekly fruit and veg box from Riverford. The price has recently gone up one pound, to £14.75. I understand this – their costs have increased a lot due to fuel increases. But it seems that the box, for us at least, is…
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this week's veg box
Lovely stuff – rhubarb, asparagus, melon, broccoli, bananas, orange, tomatoes, pointy cabbage, courgettes. From Riverford. So: asparagus and lemon risotto rhubarb rumble indian cabbage with rice stir-fried broccoli courgette and pasta bake We can have the melon, bananas and oranges for breakfast. Yum!
breakfast, before and after
Somehow, we have acquired a lot of fruit. We’re not good at eating it, and Riverford keep bringing it. We’ve been eating porridge for breakfast through the winter, mostly, but I think we must now attack the fruit backlog. Or possibly open a market stall. And so – breakfast.
the mango
Riverford sent us a mango last week. I’m not that keen on mangoes, to be honest, so it sat in the fridge and looked at us in an accusing manner. So last night I turned it into prawns with mango and basil, which worked rather better than I thought it would. This week, Riverford sent…
weekend 2/3 dec 06
Saturday evening was a tub of mutton and date tagine from the freezer, and X-Factor. Good riddance to the dreadful McDonalds, I say. Sunday morning I made a batch of carrot and coriander muffins for breakfast, then faffed about for a bit before being Good, and taking the plastics to Sainsburys for recycling, and doing…
what do you do with the veg in the veg box?
A very amusing article from Zoe Williams in the Guardian – and some nice recipe ideas in there too.
the peppers are taking over …
Astute readers will notice I’ve been posting a lot of vegetable recipes lately. This is because we have resumed our organic veggie box from Riverford, and are currently overrun with veg! We have a *lot* of peppers; some from our own garden, some from a friend, and some in the veg box … and some…